Universität Wien

090082 KU Spinning Around in Antiquity. Women and Textile Production (2016W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 9 - Altertumswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes

THU weekly, 10/6/2016-1/26/2017;4-6 pm. Place: Cast Collection, Institute of classical Archaeology, Franz-Klein-Gasse/Philippovichgasse

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Textile production was a crucial economic factor in the Graeco-Roman world that mailny lay in female hands. Textils also had a communicative function: On the one hand, they could be decorated with laborious patterns and even figurative scenes; on the other hand, clothes and textile accessories served as status markers. Thus, the production and use of textiles constitute extremely important cultural technologies in ancient times which can be examined on the basis of single topics and representative case studies. At the end oft he semester, our findings shall be presented to a larger public by means of a poster exhibition in the cast collection.
The topic is divides in the folliwing sub-areas:
1) Socio-historical aspects: weaving as economical factor, textiles as gifts and objects of exchange, the peplos of Athena, dress as status indicator.
2) Textiles in images: representations of textile production on Athenian vases, kalathos and spindle as female attributes, the meaning of dresses/textiles in images, nudity as costume.
3) Symbolic meaning: waeving and textiles in myth (Arachne, Philomela, Penelope etc.)

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation; regular attendance (max. 2 missing sessions), oral presentation (approx. 20 min); paper on the same topic (5-8pp.); designing a poster and choosing matching objects from the cast collection.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Final grade: Participation 25%, oral presentation 25%, paper 25%, poster 25%. Each assignment will be evaluated individually and must be passed.
Students can miss two sessions; student who miss three session will receive an extra assignment; students cannot pass the course with four or more missing sessions.

Examination topics

Continouous assessment. Watch ad learn. Think one step further. Filter and bundle informations. Process informations for an interested public.

Reading list

S. D. Bundrick, The fabric of the city. Imaging textile production in Classical Athens, Hesperia 77, 2008, 283-334
K. Junker - S. Tauchert, Helenas Töchter. Frauen und Mode im antiken Griechenland (Darmstadt 2015)
R. Reuthner, Wer webte Athenes Gewänder? Die Arbeit von Frauen im antiken Griechenland (Frankfurt/Main 2006)
J. Scheid - J. Svenbro, The craft of Zeus. Myths of Weaving and Fabric (Cambridge 1996)
B. Wagner-Hasel, Der Stoff der Macht. Kleideraufwand, elitärer Konsum und Homerisches Königtum, in: E. Alram-Stern [Hrsg.], Keimelion. Elitenbildung und elitärer Konsum von der mykenischen Palastzeit bis zur homerischen Epoche, Akten des internationalen Kongresses vom 3. bis 5. Februar 2005 in Salzburg (Wien 2007) 325-337.

Association in the course directory

Anrechenbar für: Grabung/Denkmalpflege/Survey/Museumskunde//
im BA (PM Grabung, Kl. Vertiefung),
im MA (APM LG, APM EX)

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